North Carolina School of the Arts with Logo
School of Design and Production School of Drama School of Filmmaking School of Music Visual Arts Academic Programs Student Life NCSA Performances Home apply search NCSA Home
CalendarsFacilitiesDirectionsAdd ti Mailing List
Quick Links Navigation
 

November

Call the UNCSA Box Office at 336-721-1945 to reserve seats, or click on "Box Office" at the left.

 

November 2011
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

7

8

Saxton Rose Recital

9

10

14

21

23

24

25
26
27

28

29
30
31
   

  

UNCSA Performances - November 2011

 

1 (Tuesday)

Schubert and Brahms: For the Romantically Inclined

Faculty artists David Jolley, horn, and Allison Gagnon, piano, are joined by voice colleagues Janine Hawley and Glenn Siebert and violinist Kevin Lawrence in an evening of 19th-century treasures. Schubert’s portion comprises a selection of Lieder together with his Auf dem Strom for tenor and horn. The program culminates in the Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn, op. 40 by Johannes Brahms.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

Oct. 28-30 and Nov. 2-6 (Wednesday-Sunday)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Rob Ruggiero / Featured members of Studio 4

Tennessee Williams’ explosive 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama changed the landscape of the American theatre. In the sultry French Quarter of New Orleans, we are introduced to the indelible characters Blanche Du Bois, a faded Southern belle; her pregnant sister, Stella; and Stanley Kowalski, her primal, brutish husband.

Oct. 28-29 & Nov. 2-5 at 8 p.m.

Oct. 30 & Nov. 5-6 at 2 p.m.

Thrust Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

3 (Thursday)

Rebecca Rischin, Clarinet, & Youmee Kim, Piano

Rebecca Rischin is Professor of Clarinet and winner of the 2002 College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award at Ohio University School of Music, where Youmee Kim is Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

5 (Saturday)

UNCSA Wind Ensemble

The UNCSA Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Michael Dodds, presents exciting works by contemporary composers. The Wind Ensemble, a large “wind orchestra” featuring a flexible instrumentation of woodwinds, brass, and percussion, performs a diverse repertory of music written for several types of ensembles including classical wind bands, military bands, symphonic bands, and contemporary ensembles of flexible instrumentation.

7:30 p.m. at Stevens Center

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

8 (Tuesday)

Saxton Rose Recital

Bassoon faculty member Saxton Rose is joined by soprano Elizabeth Pacheco Rose, bassoonist Rachael Elliott, and faculty artist Taimur Sullivan for a diverse evening of new solo and chamber music for bassoon, from Caleb Burhans' manic solo work Escape Wisconsin, to Sofia Gubaidulina's beautiful and frightening Duo Sonata for Two Bassoons, to the flirtatious Songs for Voice and Bassoon by Francisco Mignone. The performance will also feature Jacob Ter Veldhuis's Billie for Solo Bassoon and Ghettoblaster, and the premiere of a new work for bassoon, soprano saxophone and electronics by composition faculty member Lawrence Dillon.
7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

11 (Friday)

UNCSA Symphony Orchestra

The concert will feature concerto competition winner Milan Jeremic in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Flute Concerto. Rounding out the program will be Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 and Dvořák’s Carnival Overture. James Allbritten conducts.

7:30 p.m. at Stevens Center

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

12 (Saturday)

Jonathan Leathwood, Guitar

The English guitar virtuoso performs solo compositions by Bach, Maw, Petrassi and Villa-Lobos. Sponsored by the UNCSA Guitar Fund.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

13 (Sunday)

Fletcher Opera Institute: Opera Scenes

James Allbritten, music director; Steven LaCosse, stage director; Angela Vanstory Ward, pianist. An Afternoon at the Opera: Fletcher Fellows perform scenes from the repertory.

2 p.m. at Thrust Theatre, Performance Place

FREE.

 

 

15-19 (Tuesday-Saturday)

Winston-Salem Light Project

Witness entire facades of downtown buildings covered with images that will delight, inspire and amaze.

After dark at various downtown locations.

FREE.

15 (Tuesday)

UNCSA Jazz Ensemble

The award-winning UNCSA Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ron Rudkin, will perform a program offering an extensive range of big band jazz styles, including traditional swing, Latin, fusion and contemporary. The performance will feature the group’s most talented jazz soloists and highlight different sections of the band.

7:30 p.m. at Thrust Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

15-19 (Tuesday-Saturday)

Fall Dance

Fall Dance will feature new works by all UNCSA alumni choreographers Trish Casey, Helen Simoneau, Grady Bowman and Juel Lane.

Nov. 15-19 at 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 19 at 2 p.m.

de Mille Theatre

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

17-20 (Thursday-Sunday)

The Hot l Baltimore by Lanford Wilson

Directed by Caroline Kava / Featuring members of Studio 3

Off-Broadway’s zany and poignant long-running hit set in the lobby of a decaying hotel as its colorful residents face the prospect of eviction when the building is condemned.

Nov. 17-19 at 8 p.m.

Nov. 19 & 20 at 2 p.m.

Catawba Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

17-20 (Thursday-Sunday)

The Blood Knot by Athol Fugard

Directed by Robert Francesconi / Featuring members of Studio 4

This 1961 revolutionary breakthrough play established Athol Fugard as one of the world’s great living playwrights. Set in apartheid-era South Africa in the 1950s, it is about the soul-searing effects of racism on two half-brothers – one light skinned, the other dark. A classroom workshop presented by the School of Drama.

Nov. 17-19 at 8 p.m.

Nov. 19 & 20 at 2 p.m.

Patrons Theatre, Performance Place ***NOTE VENUE CHANGE***

SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $6

19 (Saturday)

Cantata Singers Concert

The Cantata Singers welcomes the Winston-Salem Youth Chorus for a joint concert of choral music.

2 p.m. at Crawford Hall

FREE.

 

Other Performances

 

1 (Tuesday)

Piedmont Opera:

Don Giovanni

Stevens Center

7:30 p.m.

$81-$16

20 (Sunday)

Winston-Salem Symphony

Stevens Center

3 p.m.

$61-$14

22 (Tuesday)

Winston-Salem Symphony

Stevens Center

7:30 p.m.

$61-$14